Brian Bear awarded 2014 Top Doctor designation

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Mar 30, 2014 at 6:00 PM

ROCKFORD — Dr. Brian J. Bear of Rockford Orthopedic Associates has been nominated and selected to the Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctor for 2014 list.

Nominees for this award are extensively reviewed by Castle Connolly’s physician-led research team to examine their medical education, training, board certifications, hospital appointments, professional achievements and malpractice and disciplinary history before identifying those to be recognized as outstanding Castle Connolly doctors.

As a board-certified surgeon, Bear’s practice at Rockford Orthopedic Associates is focused on shoulder, elbow, hand, microvascular, traumatic and reconstructive surgery. He is an associate clinical professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Rockford and a frequent lecturer at the AAOS Orthopaedic Learning Center in Rosemont.

Rockford Orthopedic Associates, Ltd., serves the northern Illinois region in multi-specialty orthopedics from offices in Rockford, Crystal Lake and Huntley, and offers a full range of bone and joint care including the specialties of podiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, occupational health and rheumatology.